APPENDIX X

List of Addresses Commemorative of Historical Events

Reed's Modern Eloquence.

Field, C. W., Story of the Atlantic Cable, 8: 473.
Higginson, T. W., Battle of the Cowpens, 8: 618.
Higginson, T. W., Decoration Day, 8: 621.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Memorial Day, 8: 691.

Depew's Library of Oratory.

Adams, John Quincy, Oration at Plymouth, 4: 273.

Beecher, Henry Ward, At the Raising of the Old Flag at Fort Sumter,

8:395.

Curtis, George William, Oration at Concord, 10: 333.

Depew, Chauncey M., At the Columbian Exposition, 12: 332.

Depew, Chauncey M., Oration at the Unveiling of the Bartholdi

Statue, 12: 307.

Ewarts, William M., What the Age Owes to America, 9: 238.

Everett, Edward, Patriotic Oration, 6: 92.

Fenelon, Archbishop, Festival of the Epiphany, 2: 113.

Fiske, John, Oration on Columbus, 13: 441.

Higginson, T. W., Decoration Day Address, 10: 298.

Lowell, James Russell, Oration at the 250th Anniversary of the

Founding of Harvard College, 9: 354.

Prentiss, Sargent, The New England Address, 7: 349.

Webster, Daniel, Bunker Hill Monument Oration, 5: 268.
Webster, Daniel, At Plymouth in 1820, 5: 293.

Brewer's The World's Best Orations.

Adams, Charles Francis, Jr., Battle of Gettysburg, 1: 31.
Adams, John Quincy, Oration at Plymouth, 1: 64.

Adams, John Quincy, The Jubilee of the Constitution, 1: 85.
Beecher, Henry Ward, Raising the Flag over Fort Sumter, 1: 346.
Boudinot, Elias, The Mission of America, 2: 580.

Brown, Henry Armitt, One Century's Achievement, 2:683.
Brown, Henry Armitt, Dangers of the Present, 2: 685.
Carson, Hampton L., American Liberty, 2: 985.
Depew, Chauncey M., Columbian Oration, 5: 1769.
Hale, Edward Everett, Boston's Place in History, 6: 2355.
Hecker, F. K. F., Liberty in the New Atlantis, 7: 2457.
McKinley, William, American Patriotism, 8: 2899.

Prentiss, Sargent, On New England Day, 8: 3233.

Quincy, Josiah, Junior, At the Second Centennial of Boston, 9: 3272. Webster, Daniel, Laying the Cornerstone of Bunker Hill Monu

ment, 10: 3828.

Webster, Daniel, At Plymouth in 1820, 10: 3846.

1. Educational Waste.

APPENDIX XI

Oration Subjects 1

The student should be led early in life

to discover that for which he is fitted.

2. Shackles of the Dead.

3. Our Debt to Agitators.

courage of the few.

We are retarded by certain traditions.

We owe progress in civilization to the

4. Immigration and Democracy. - American ideals are endangered; or America is the land of opportunity.

5. Invisible Government. The boss, as an outgrowth of our check and balance system, can be dethroned only by the centralization of power.

6. The Waste of War. Whom the gods wish to destroy, they

first make mad.

7. Education, the Foundation of Democracy.

The greater the

power in the hands of the people the more necessary becomes the discussion of public questions.

8. Marshall and the Federal Constitution. His great service was to adjust the delicate balance between national and state rights.

So long

9. Another "Irrepressible Conflict": Labor and Capital. as there is a privileged class, the question will not be settled. 10. Christian Unity. The principle of modern business coöperation should be applied in the field of religion.

II. The Civic Service of Great Poets.

- By expressing the best sentiments of the people, they have strengthened and moved them to action.

12. The New Penology. — The aim is to reform the criminal while protecting society.

1 Other subjects will be found in J. Berg Esenwein's How to Attract and Hold an Audience and in Shurter's The Rhetoric of Oratory.